"What's going on here? There was a gas explosion in the yard a few days ago, why is there an explosion in the street next to it?"
This is the exclamation of Fujimura Taihe who came to have a meal after seeing the collapsed courtyard wall and the entire street that was blown away.
On the other side, a weak purple-haired girl hid nervously behind Emiya Shirou, looking at the street with a frightened expression as if it had been bombed by aerial bombs, and looked at us curiously from time to time a few strangers.
Gas explosion... Speaking of Emiya-san, can't you think of another reason
One after another the landing pods fell in Fuyuki City. Even if the invisible camouflage could be used to hide the trajectory of the landing pods in the air, the tragic traces left on the ground were impossible to cover up. Rin Tohsaka did his best to use his knowledge in the dark world Officially, Wei Neng turned everything into a more reasonable bombing case, which can be considered as a way to hide from ordinary people, but for Fujimura Taiga and Matou Sakura, two people who are very close to Emiya Shirou, it seems to be more troublesome.
Well, maybe Fujimura who has thick lines can hide it, but Sakura is obviously a careful girl. Seeing the shape of the pit next to the wreckage of the courtyard wall and the obvious traces of something being removed at the bottom, she still spoke weakly: " That... senior... Will the gas explosion really form such a big crater?"
Emiya Shirou had a bitter look on his face: "Sakura, just treat it as a gas explosion."
"Oh..." The weak purple-haired girl nodded and stopped talking.
This girl is too cute
For some reason, Fujimura and Sakura haven't come to Emiya's mansion these days. The former has met us, but this is the first time the latter has appeared in front of us this time. A stranger who is a distant relative of a good friend, this weak girl who looks a little shy seems to care very much, especially when more than half of us are women, but then again, the two of Pandora and Viska Does the little one meter two need you to be vigilant
I'm sorry, two sisters, I accidentally poked you in a sore spot just now...
The appearance of such distant relatives or old friends with suspicious identities one after another naturally caused a lot of trouble for Emiya Shirou. Just how to explain our origins has already exhausted the hapless good old man, especially in these uninvited Given that most of the non-human beings who came were girls, Matou Sakura's weeping expression and Fujimura-san's scrutinizing eyes every time she looked at her might be more terrifying to Emiya than Ling Chi, But we can't help with these things, and in fact, if Sarenko and I didn't show up in advance as a foreshadowing, and the Pandora sisters showed up as a buffer, when ber is suddenly exposed in front of Fujimura, the impact on the latter will definitely be greater , from this point of view, it seems that a certain coyote should thank us for coming.
After breakfast, the Emiya Mansion, which had been bustling all morning, finally quieted down again, because the incident on the campus broke out earlier than we expected and was "solved", and Saten seemed to have no need to continue staying in the school, so After irresponsibly asking the "relevant departments" of the empire to prepare a withdrawal procedure, the girl once again became a happy skipping class. When she watched Emiya Shirou and Matou Sakura go out, she laughed so brightly that the distance was so bright.
Now, there is finally no ordinary person left here.
After ordering Pandora and Viska to open the force field to cover the entire Emiya mansion, Saten and I walked towards the dojo behind the courtyard.
The door of the dojo is open, and the wide space inside can be seen at a glance. It seems that there is no abnormality, but this is just a false appearance under the invisible force field. Renzi pulled out the command knife and waved it in the air. Immediately, the surrounding space is cleared When it fluctuates, what was originally hidden by the phase is exposed to us.
The first thing that catches the eye is a crystal platform with a radius of about five meters. It is in the shape of a standard octagon, and a small rhombus-shaped crystal column is suspended on each vertex. These crystal columns radiate a faint blue grating around. , forming a seemingly real and illusory cage, and inside the cage, a woman with long purple hair reaching the ground turned her back to us, and slumped down on the crystal platform.
The heroic spirit captured by us is a woman whose real name is Medusa.
According to Tohsaka Rin, since it is an enemy, of course it should be eliminated, and ber also agrees with this, but Wei Gong Shirou obviously cannot agree with such behavior, and we also have reasons for keeping her, so she should have been sent Rider, who returned to the Hall of Valor, was imprisoned just like that.
Of course, the most important reason is that for the Holy Grail War, killing Rider now has no meaning. In the Holy Grail War, the meaning of killing the heroic spirit and leaving only one person is to make the six "exited" heroic spirits magical To provide fuel for the coming of the Holy Grail, and the current Rider can no longer bear the responsibility of fuel. She has been eroded by psionic energy, and now even part of her body is still crystallized. Before these alienated energies are dispelled, Rider's death will only cause the Holy Grail to suffer. irreversible damage.
"She is recovering well and is able to move around."
The blond girl who was staying next to the crystal platform to take care of the "prisoner of war" immediately greeted her. Although she was very wary of us at the beginning, she was able to capture the enemy's servant alive this time, almost entirely due to our help. , which greatly increased Ber's favor towards us. Although she knew nothing about our strength, she almost regarded us as temporary allies.
"Hey, don't you want to turn around? As a prisoner of war, your attitude is not very good now."
After a few seconds.
"Brother Director, you have been ignored." Renzi, as always, revealed her dark side in such a subtle place.
"You're ruthless." Angrily, I pointed at the purple-haired woman whose back was still facing me, ignoring what I was saying, and then twisted my waist and stepped hard, "At worst, I'll go around."
ber, tear child: "..."
"You're such a strange person," this time, even the purple-haired woman who had always been calm couldn't keep her composure. She stood up with difficulty and turned to this side, with a subtle sense of suppressed laughter in her tone , "At least tell me, what happened to my body? What's going on with this weird cage?"
The woman who turned around was tall and slender, with a soft figure, which should be called beautiful, but her eyes were covered with a very strange purple eyepatch, and the eyepatch that covered most of her features made her The beauty is greatly discounted, but it adds to the weirdness, but I know that the pair of magic eyes hidden under the blindfold are the real danger, even more so than the blood that enveloped the entire school and nearly killed thousands of teachers and students. The temple is even more dangerous, well, at least it was before she was corrupted. As for now, those magic eyes should still be temporarily frozen.
"It's just been eroded by psionic energy," I pointed to the tip of the other party's hair. The long hair that should have been like a purple waterfall turned into blue-white crystals at the tip. Although these crystals have been greatly suppressed, they still Still stubbornly occupying his own territory, "So, eating indiscriminately will cause stomach trouble."
"As for the cage used to imprison you, it is something you really have to be grateful for if you can survive. If there is no transformation of the crystal matrix, you who have been turned into a crystal state by psionic energy, would have been out of your wits."
"Really," the purple-haired woman nodded indifferently, and then sat down again. With her current physical condition, it is quite difficult to maintain standing for a long time. "I don't remember any heroic spirits with such abilities as you. This kind of thing... seems to have never appeared in my memory, and as a member of the Holy Grail War, it is really strange that you would choose to capture me alive instead of killing me directly."
"You want to die that much?"
I showed a surprised expression. The other party's words were too plain. When talking about my own life and death, it was as indifferent as talking about the weather.
"It doesn't matter." The purple-haired woman's voice was neither sad nor happy, and she couldn't hear any emotion at all. "I followed the call to participate in this war, and then left because of the defeat of the war. There is nothing to regret."
"That is to say, no matter what methods we use, you are not going to reveal who your mer is?" I raised my eyebrows and asked with a raised tone.
The purple-haired woman expressed her attitude in silence. Obviously, even if she didn't care about death, only the master who summoned her would not want to hurt her.
"We have confirmed that your mer is in that school, and is a student," I deliberately showed a vicious expression, "that is to say, killing all those students can also achieve the goal."
As soon as the words were finished, I suddenly felt a wave of anger appearing beside me, and I turned my head with a slightly startled expression, only to see Ber's magnificent green eyes, and the questioning contained in them was not concealed.
"Don't get excited," the Knight King's reaction was completely beyond my expectations, but it was my own negligence to say such misleading words without saying hello before, "I frightened her to play."
Ber's eyes froze, and then he showed a rare expression of dumbfounding. Even after a few days of contact, it seems that my non-slip is still very difficult for this serious dumb king to accept.
For a woman who can use the blood temple to cover the entire school and absorb human vitality, such a threat seems nothing. She doesn't care about the lives of those students at all, but I know that she will definitely say something.
Sure enough, facing such a threat, the purple-haired woman first waited silently, and then on the surface, as if she had gone through some serious ideological struggle, she slowly raised her head, but there was a little bit of cruelty at the corner of her mouth that was almost undetectable. radian.
"It seems that there is no point in hiding something. His name is Matou Shinji, and he is the heir of the Matou family."
Sure enough, she chose to use that guy as a shield.
Matou Shinji, that is Emiya Shirou's classmate, and also Matou Sakura's nominal elder brother, but in fact, he is the creator of the latter's nightmare life, and his identity is the direct heir of the Matou family of the magic family, but in fact On the other hand, he is a useless person who does not have the talent of a magician at all. Even if he does not know the plot, he can know such information with the simplest investigation. Can such a guy be a participant in the Holy Grail War
Obviously, the purple-haired woman just wants to use such a seemingly reasonable explanation to blame Matou Shinji. If we believe her words and attack the so-called "mer", it's okay to die a scumbag. She might be quite happy on the contrary, and even if we can find out that the information is false, the real owner of the purple-haired woman will not be hurt.
In fact, for those of us who are familiar with the plot, such a question and answer itself is not very meaningful. The answer was known early on. I just want to know whether the notorious woman in front of me is really guarding the girl as rumored. Now it seems that even the notorious Medusa has something to praise.
"Maybe you don't know much about it yet." After confirming a certain fact, it's time to explain the situation, "Our identity is a bit special, and Ber will explain it to you soon, and now all you need to know is , that mer who was protected by you in every possible way is already in danger."
The purple-haired woman raised her head all of a sudden, and I couldn't see her sight under the cover of the blindfold, but the other party was obviously trying to analyze the truth of what I said just now from my expression.
"Psychic energy has eroded your body. The body of a heroic spirit is made of energy. After experiencing the previous near-death experience, you should have also discovered that your body was once crystallized to some extent. Until now, this This kind of crystallization has not completely subsided," I said, pointing to the other party's still crystal clear hair, "then have you ever thought that this kind of dangerous energy will flow upstream along with the contract between the heroic spirit and the master? past?"
For a moment, the purple-haired woman's body stiffened.
How could it be, how could I ignore such a danger? Could it be because of this completely unfamiliar attack that he lost his ability to judge? Such dangerous energy, even the body of a heroic spirit is almost turned into a crystal statue, once it enters the human body...
"Don't worry too much, the situation is not that bad. The huge lethality of psionic energy to heroic spirits is due to your own nature. Energy life forms are extremely sensitive to harmful energy that invades themselves, and the human body can accommodate these things a little bit. , not to mention—the energy reflux received by that girl is very weak, right now, she should just be a little dizzy? But we can't guarantee the consequences after a long time."
My reassurance made the purple-haired woman slightly relieved, but immediately after, she noticed the key to my words: "'That girl'? You already know..."
"That's right, Matou Sakura, I saw her this morning," I shrugged, and at the same time, I realized that it is also very interesting to "trick" these heroic spirits occasionally, especially when the other party is still a When you are an indifferent guy, "Don't show that expression, I just want to see if you really care about Sakura, if you really said the name of your real master just now, it has turned into a crystal statue now— The crystal platform under you is made of pure nether energy."
With just this sentence, the purple-haired woman almost jumped up on the spot
It was not difficult to tell Rider our identities, but when the explanation was over, I felt like I was breaking out in a cold sweat. There was no other reason, because Da Mao Wang had been watching from the side during the whole process.
You may not understand, so I will make it clear: When I explained our origin to ber before, didn't I make up a lot of things at will? Now I suddenly realize that those things seem to have been forgotten, which means that I have to try my best to remember how I fooled Ber before talking nonsense with Rider. The short fifteen minutes of conversation did not exhaust me.
Kidnapping and killing people, especially after cheating a well-known and serious fool king
"In other words, you are from another... planet?"
After quietly listening to my explanation, and watching me show some gadgets from the Xiling Empire that have absolutely nothing to do with human civilization, Rider confirmed in such an unbelievable tone.
For these heroic spirits who have participated in more than one Holy Grail War and have reincarnated countless times in endless time, things in modern society are not difficult to understand, even if they were basically born in ancient times, It doesn't affect Rider's understanding of the concept of "alien", but it's one thing to understand, and another thing to really accept it. The battle between human magicians will mess up the setting of aliens, Let our Medusa classmates feel very awkward.
After talking about the matter and saying that he can help dispel the psionic pollution in Matou Sakura's body, Rider's attitude towards us has improved a lot. This notorious woman with the name of a killer is actually a rather simple guy. She also has My own emotions and personal hobbies also have the person I want to protect: Sakura Matou, but other than that, she doesn't take anyone's life or death seriously, which should be said to be due to those sources It is a common problem of mythical heroes or monster spirits, contempt for mortals and ordinary people. From this point of view, Ber's chivalry is really rare.
But no matter what, after learning about Rider, a woman full of contradictions, I still have some good feelings for her. Of course, this little good feeling is not the reason why I took the trouble to increase my friendship with her. The most important thing is Yes, I need Rider to help me with a whimsical idea, which involves Rider himself and Matou Sakura, and strictly speaking, it is dangerous. If Lin Xue hadn't predicted that this experiment would be of great significance, And if it will be successful in the end, no matter what I say, I will not start such a biochemical experiment proposal on innocent people. Since Rider is going to help cooperate with that matter, it is necessary to establish a good relationship with the other party now, because I I don't like to force anyone.
"I'm still curious about one thing," Rider, who was still very weak after the relationship eased, sat lazily on the barrier of the crystal table in his cage, which is also the treatment equipment, and looked at us curiously, "You guys What about your motives? I think, as beings other than humans, or even creatures outside this planet, you should have no need to intervene in what happens here, right? But I think your actions seem to be full of purpose Sex, of course, is just my intuition."
Should it be said that it really deserves to be Medusa? This observation and intuition are probably sharper than Tohsaka Rin. Of course, the latter may also have doubts, but because there is no conflict of interest, he didn't bring it up.
Noticing that Ber on the side also showed an interested expression, I just shrugged my shoulders indifferently: "Well, who knows, maybe it's just curiosity, anyway, I don't have any malicious intentions, so isn't that enough?" U